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LAWRENCE WAGNER, OF JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI.

BOTTLE-WASHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,662, dated June 28, 1881.

Application tiled October 10, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LAWRENCE WAGNER, of Jefferson City, in the county of Cole and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Washing Machines, of which the following is a specification 'lhe object of this invention is to provide a more safe, speedy, and simple method of cleaning bottles.

Figure l is a. side elevation of the device, partly in section, and with parts broken away to exhibit other parts. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents the standard supporting the device.

B is a horizontal sh'aft having one end journaled`on said standard Aand the other inthe hub of the cogwheel M, and having on one end a.v crank, B', and on the other end a y-wl1'eel, B2. Fixed rigidly on said shaft B, inside of the nprights of the standard A, are the two wheels or spiders C C, on whose peripheries, at equal distances apart, are formed or secured thejournal-boxes c, that serve as bearings for the' shafts D, which extend parallel with each other and with the shaft B from one to the other ofthe wheels or spiders C C.

On each end of each shaft D, within their Ybearing-points, is rigidly secured a tive-armed spider, E, cach arm d of which is of sufficient width to support or form an end of a bottleholding box, G G. Between the arms of the opposite spiders E, extending from one spider E to the opposite one parallel with the shafts D, and surrounding them, are rigidlyxed the rectangular boxes G G, five to each pair of spiders E; hence in the machine herein shown and described are fifteen of these boxes G G, and it is evident that the number may be increased or diminished without departing from my invention. The boxes G G are divided into pocketsff by inclined partitions g g, and in these pockets ff the bottles H H that are to be cleaned are placed in an inclined position, as shown in Fig. l.

Said boxes G G are also provided with covers h h, that are held down by catches fi ,'or other suitable devices, as shown, to retain said bottles H H in place during the operation of the machine.

On an end of each shaft D is keyed a oogwheel, L, all of them in the same plane 5 and about the shaft B, and in the same plane with the cog-wheels L, is loosely set a cog-wheel, M, fastened to the standard A, and serving as a bearing for an end of the shaft B, into which the cog wheels L mesh, as shown.

The bottles H H, containing water and shot, or small particles of metal or other hard substance, are closed with suitable stoppers and placed in inclined positions in the pockets fj', as shown, and the covers h h are then fastened down. Said pockets f j' are preferably larger than the 'bottles placed in them, that the bottles may have room to move about a little. Power is then applied to turn the crank B', whereby the boxes G G are revolved in groups around the shaft B by reason of their connection'with the spiders C C, and at the same time each group of boxes G G is revolved around its 'shaft D by reason of the meshing of the cog-wheels L with the cog-wheel M, that is secured on the standard A. Thus it will be seen the'bottles H H perform a doublev revolution at each turn ofthe crank B', and, by reason ot' fitting loosely` in the pockets ff and being in an inclined position, are also well shaken, so that they are quickly cleaned internally by the water and shot within them.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a bottle-washer, the combination ot' the revolving spiders C C, having the peripheral boxes c c, with the shaft D, carrying pinions L, the shaft B, carrying stationary cog-wheel M, and the revolving spiders E E, having inclined pockets f f and covers IL h, asshown and described.

LAWRENCE WAGNER.

Witnesses:

CHs. G. PE'rEEssEN, HERMANN TANNER. 

